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Ritchie County, WV Birth, Death, Marriage, Divorce Records

Ritchie County post-1917 birth, death, and marriage records are available from West Virginia's Health Statistics Center, usually for $12. However, only family members can obtain birth records from the last 100 years and death and marriage records from the last 50 years. The Ritchie County Clerk provides vital records before 1917 and all divorce records. Created in 1843 from Harrison, Lewis, and Wood Counties, Ritchie County was named for journalist Thomas Ritchie. Harrisville, the county seat, incorporated in 1869, was known as Ritchie; the town was renamed for General Thomas Harris, a commissioner in the trial of those accused of plotting Abraham Lincoln's assassination.